{"id":55023,"date":"2016-11-05T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=55023"},"modified":"2016-11-05T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T20:29:42","slug":"video-assange-sets-the-record-straight-on-emailgate-the-clinton-foundation-russias-innocence-and-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=55023","title":{"rendered":"Bombshell Interview: Assange Sets The Record Straight on <i>Emailgate<\/i>, the Clinton Foundation, Russia&#8217;s Innocence and ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Assange: Clinton is a cog for Goldman Sachs &amp; the Saudis (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE VIDEO &amp; TRANSCRIPT)<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nRT.com<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secret World of US Election: Julian Assange talks to John Pilger (FULL INTERVIEW)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_sbT3_9dJY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whistleblower Julian Assange has given one of his most incendiary interviews ever in a John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, in which he summarizes what can be gleaned from the tens of thousands of Clinton emails released by WikiLeaks this year.<\/p>\n<p>John Pilger, another Australian \u00e9migr\u00e9, conducted the 25-minute interview at the Ecuadorian Embassy, where Assange has been trapped since 2012 for fear of extradition to the US. Last month, Assange had his internet access cut off for alleged <em>\u201cinterference\u201d<\/em> in the American presidential election through the work of his website.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Clinton made FBI look weak, now there is anger\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>John Pilger:\u00a0<\/strong><em>What\u2019s the significance of the FBI&#8217;s intervention in these last days of the U.S. election campaign, in the case against Hillary Clinton?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Julian Assange<\/strong>: If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America&#8217;s political police. The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his mistress. Almost no-one is untouchable.\u00a0 The FBI is always trying to demonstrate that no-one can resist us.\u00a0 But Hillary Clinton very conspicuously resisted the FBI&#8217;s investigation, so there\u2019s anger within the FBI because it made the FBI look weak.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve published about 33,000 of Clinton&#8217;s emails when she was Secretary of State.\u00a0 They come from a batch of just over 60,000 emails, [of which] Clinton has kept about half \u2013 30,000 &#8212; to herself, and we&#8217;ve published about half.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the Podesta emails we&#8217;ve been publishing.\u00a0 [John] Podesta is Hillary Clinton\u2019s primary campaign manager, so there\u2019s a thread that runs through all these emails; there are quite a lot of pay-for-play, as they call it, giving access in exchange for money to states, individuals and corporations. [These emails are] combined with the cover up of the Hillary Clinton emails when she was Secretary of State, [which] has led to an environment where the pressure on the FBI increases.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Russian government not the source of Clinton leaks\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>\u00a0The Clinton campaign has said that Russia is behind all of this, that Russia has manipulated the campaign and is the source for WikiLeaks and its emails.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0The Clinton camp has been able to project that kind of neo-McCarthy hysteria: that Russia is responsible for everything.\u00a0 Hilary Clinton stated multiple times, falsely, that seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That is false; we can say that the Russian government is not the source.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks has been publishing for ten years, and in those ten years, we have published ten million documents, several thousand individual publications, several thousand different sources, and we have never got it wrong.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Saudi Arabia &amp; Qatar funding ISIS and Clinton\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The emails that give evidence of access for money and how Hillary Clinton herself benefited from this and how she is benefitting politically, are quite extraordinary. I\u2019m thinking of\u00a0 when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/365299-assange-pilger-saudi-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"http:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.11\/thumbnail\/581c519dc461880a4b8b45bc.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/365299-assange-pilger-saudi-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"read-more__footer\">Assange: Clinton &amp; ISIS funded by same money, Trump won\u2019t be allowed to win (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0And twelve million dollars from Morocco \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP: <\/strong><em>Twelve million from Morocco yeah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0For Hillary Clinton to attend [a party].<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>In terms of the foreign policy of the United States, that\u2019s where the emails are most revealing, where they show the direct connection between Hillary Clinton and the foundation of jihadism, of ISIL, in the Middle East.\u00a0 Can you talk about how the emails demonstrate the connection between those who are meant to be fighting the jihadists of ISIL, are actually those who have helped create it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0There\u2019s an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, not so long after she left the State Department, to her campaign manager John Podesta that states ISIL is funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.\u00a0 Now this is the most significant email in the whole collection, and perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the Clinton Foundation.\u00a0 Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS. But the dodge has always been that, well it\u2019s just some rogue Princes, using their cut of the oil money to do whatever they like, but actually the government disapproves.<\/p>\n<p>But that email says that no, it is the governments of Saudi and\u00a0 Qatar that have been funding ISIS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:\u00a0<\/strong><em>The Saudis, the Qataris, the Moroccans, the Bahrainis, particularly the Saudis and the Qataris, are giving all this money to the Clinton Foundation while Hilary Clinton is Secretary of State and the State Department is approving massive arms sales, particularly to Saudi Arabia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0Under Hillary Clinton, the world\u2019s largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.\u00a0 In fact, during her tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Of course the consequence of that is that the notorious terrorist group called ISIl or ISIS is created largely with money from the very people who are giving money to the Clinton Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>That&#8217;s extraordinary.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Clinton has been eaten alive by\u00a0her ambition\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions,\u00a0 tormented literally to the point where they become sick; they faint as a result of [the reaction] to their ambitions. She represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.\u00a0 The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network?\u00a0 She&#8217;s a centralising cog. You\u2019ve got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s the centraliser that inter-connects all these different cogs.\u00a0 She\u2019s the smooth central representation of all that, and \u2018all that\u2019 is more or less what is in power now in the United States. It\u2019s what we call the establishment or the DC consensus. One of the more significant Podesta emails that we released was about how the Obama cabinet was formed and how half the Obama cabinet was basically nominated by a representative from City Bank. This is quite amazing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/362836-emails-citigroup-obama-cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"http:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.10\/thumbnail\/580147fdc36188eb4e8b4570.jpg\" alt=\"President Barack Obama meets with members of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room at the White House. \u00a9 White House\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/362836-emails-citigroup-obama-cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"read-more__footer\">WikiLeaks emails shows Citigroup\u2019s major role in shaping Obama administration\u2019s cabinet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Didn\u2019t Citybank supply a list \u2026. ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>\u00a0\u2026 which turned out to be most of the Obama cabinet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA<\/strong>: Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>So Wall Street decides the cabinet of the President of the United States?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0If you were following the Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0So I think you can\u2019t properly understand Hillary Clinton&#8217;s foreign policy without understanding Saudi Arabia.\u00a0 The connections with Saudi Arabia are so intimate.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Libya is Hillary Clinton\u2019s war\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>Why was she so demonstrably enthusiastic about the destruction of Libya? Can you talk a little about just what the emails have told us \u2013 told you \u2013 about what happened there? Because Libya is such a source for so much of the mayhem now in Syria: the ISIL, jihadism, and so on. And it was almost Hillary Clinton&#8217;s invasion. What do the emails tell us about that?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/364757-clinton-podesta-benghazi-leaks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.10\/thumbnail\/58161a70c36188ca398b4632.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton \u00a9 Joshua Roberts\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/364757-clinton-podesta-benghazi-leaks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"read-more__footer\">\u2018A very different kind of warfare\u2019: Clinton team on Benghazi committee leaks in #PodestaEmails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0Libya, more than anyone else\u2019s war, was Hillary Clinton\u2019s war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it?\u00a0 Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 That\u2019s documented throughout her emails. She had put her favoured agent, Sidney Blumenthal, on to that; there\u2019s more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we&#8217;ve published, just about Libya. It\u2019s not that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state &#8212; something that she would use in her run-up to the general election for President.<\/p>\n<p>So in late 2011 there is an internal document called the Libya Tick Tock that was produced for Hillary Clinton, and it\u2019s the chronological description of how she was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state, which resulted in around 40,000 deaths within Libya; jihadists moved in, ISIS moved in, leading to the European refugee and migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it. Libya faces along to the Mediterranean and had been effectively the cork in the bottle of Africa. So all problems, economic problems and civil war in Africa &#8212; previously people fleeing those problems didn\u2019t end up in Europe because Libya policed the Mediterranean. That was said explicitly at the time, back in early 2011 by Gaddafi:\u00a0 \u2018What do these Europeans think they\u2019re doing, trying to bomb and destroy the Libyan State? There\u2019s going to be floods of migrants out of Africa and jihadists into Europe, and this is exactly what happened.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Trump won\u2019t be permitted to win\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>\u00a0You get complaints from people saying, \u2018What is WikiLeaks doing?\u00a0 Are they trying to put Trump in the Whitehouse?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/shows\/watching-the-hawks\/365317-assange-comey-clinton-election\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"http:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.11\/thumbnail\/581c56fac3618858738b458d.jpg\" alt=\"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange \u00a9 Peter Nicholls\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/shows\/watching-the-hawks\/365317-assange-comey-clinton-election\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"read-more__footer\">Assange, Comey &amp; Clinton: The Assange Twilight Zone (E354)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0My answer is that Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that?\u00a0 Because he&#8217;s had every establishment off side; Trump doesn\u2019t have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence [agencies], arms companies&#8230; big foreign money \u2026 are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>There is the accusation that WikiLeaks is in league with the Russians. Some people say, \u2018Well, why doesn\u2019t WikiLeaks investigate and publish emails on Russia?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0We have published about 800,000 documents of various kinds that relate to Russia. Most of those are critical; and a great many books have come out of our publications about Russia, most of which are critical. Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind of claimed political persecution in Russia, which they use our documents to back up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>\u00a0Do you yourself take a view of the U.S. election?\u00a0 Do you have a preference for Clinton or Trump?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0[Let\u2019s talk about] Donald Trump. What does he represent in the American mind and in the European mind?\u00a0 He represents American white trash, [which Hillary Clinton called] \u2018deplorable and irredeemable\u2019.\u00a0 It means from an establishment or educated cosmopolitan, urbane perspective, these people are like the red necks, and you can never deal with them.\u00a0 Because he so clearly &#8212; through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies &#8212; represents people who are not the middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton. If you look at how the middle class gains its economic and social power, that makes absolute sense.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018US attempting to squeeze WikiLeaks through my refugee status\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>I\u2019d like to talk about Ecuador, the small country that has given you refuge and [political asylum] in this embassy in London.\u00a0 Now Ecuador has cut off the internet from here where we&#8217;re doing this interview, in the Embassy, for the clearly obvious reason that they are concerned about appearing to intervene in the U.S. election campaign.\u00a0 Can you talk about why they would take that action and your own views on Ecuador\u2019s support for you?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/363365-wikileaks-assange-state-dept-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"http:\/\/img.rt.com\/files\/2016.10\/thumbnail\/5807cbf0c36188995e8b45be.jpg\" alt=\"Julian Assange, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks. \u00a9\u00a0Axel Schmidt\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/363365-wikileaks-assange-state-dept-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"read-more__footer\">Pro-Hillary US State Dept \u2018behind Assange internet cutoff\u2019 \u2013 WikiLeaks activist to RT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0Let\u2019s let go back four years.\u00a0 I made an asylum application to Ecuador in this embassy, because of the U.S. extradition case, and the result was that after a month, I was successful in my asylum application. The embassy since then has been surrounded by police: quite an expensive police operation which the British government admits to spending more than \u00a312.6 million. They admitted that over a year ago.\u00a0 Now there\u2019s undercover police and there are robot surveillance cameras of various kinds &#8212; so that there has been quite a serious conflict right here in the heart of London between Ecuador, a country of sixteen million people, and the United Kingdom, and the Americans who have been helping on the side.\u00a0 So that was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>\u00a0Tell us what would happen if you walked out of this embassy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or to Sweden. In Sweden I am not charged, I have already been previously cleared [by the Senior Stockholm Prosecutor Eva Finne]. We were not certain exactly what would happen there, but then we know that the Swedish government has refused to say that they will not extradite me to the United States we know they have extradited 100 per cent of people whom the U.S. has requested since at least 2000.\u00a0 So over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won\u2019t happen].<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>People often ask me how you cope with the isolation in here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0Look, one of the best attributes of human beings is that they\u2019re adaptable; one of the worst attributes of human beings is they are adaptable.\u00a0 They adapt and start to tolerate abuses, they adapt to being involved themselves in abuses, they adapt to adversity and they continue on. So in my situation, frankly, I\u2019m a bit institutionalised &#8212; this [the embassy] is the world .. it\u2019s visually the world [for me].<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>It\u2019s the world without sunlight, for one thing, isn\u2019t it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s the world without sunlight, but I haven\u2019t seen sunlight in so long, I don\u2019t remember it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>\u00a0Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:\u00a0<\/strong>So , yes, you adapt.\u00a0 The one real irritant is that my young children &#8212; they also adapt. They adapt to being without their father. That\u2019s a hard, hard adaption which they didn\u2019t ask for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Do you worry about them?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, I worry about them; I worry about their mother.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BMbmVCjh7RC\/embed\/captioned\/?v=7\" width=\"300\" height=\"763\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>\u2018I am innocent and in arbitrary detention\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Some people would say, \u2018Well, why don\u2019t you end it and simply walk out the door and allow yourself to be extradited to Sweden?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it\u2019s] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K.\u00a0 Who\u2019s right?\u00a0 The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.\u00a0 It is the United Nations formally asking, \u2018What\u2019s going on here?\u00a0 What is your legal explanation for this? [Assange] says that you should recognise his asylum.\u2019 [And here is]<\/p>\n<p>Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, \u2018No, we&#8217;re not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.<\/p>\n<p>I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it doesn\u2019t suit the Western establishment narrative &#8212; that yes, the West has political prisoners, it\u2019s a reality, it\u2019s not just me, there\u2019s a bunch of other people as well.\u00a0 The West has political prisoners. Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don\u2019t call them political prisoners in China, they don\u2019t call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don\u2019t call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:\u00a0<\/strong>Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum.\u00a0 Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JP:<\/strong><em>\u00a0Yes, it\u2019s different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>JA:<\/strong>\u00a0The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.<\/p>\n<p>[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even mentioning that Ecuador made a formal assessment through its formal processes and found that yes, I am subject to persecution by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/365405-assange-pilger-full-transcript\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/365405-assange-pilger-full-transcript\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assange: Clinton is a cog for Goldman Sachs &amp; the Saudis (JOHN PILGER EXCLUSIVE VIDEO &amp; TRANSCRIPT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}